The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-05-20
Dbl $50 Cure

I H6nea ana the lady he ad-
dressed was Madeline Field. small
sirlish woman. standing bareheaded
Snnder tho bright clondless sky of an
: Arkansas summer.
A soft, dimpled hand shaded her
eyes. and the floating white OF her
morning dress enveloped her like a
summer cloud altogether it was astrik-
{ ing picture.
Thebig, rough bearded fellow stand
/ ing ii his ungainiy market wagon, the
tired mules. with heads down-hanging
4 and their ragged looking ears patheti-
cally fapping at the persistent flies,
the rustic basket up-pilel with lns-
i cious. satin,cheeked peaches and the
/ iatticsd box OF fowl in the rear.
Not ct all AN unpleasant picture"
thought weary invalid Burt Denslow,
/ as hs sat down opposite them and
\ noted the homely events.
He had the eye OF an artist, and
always found the picturesque especi-
ally IN this wildly romatic village in
4 the ozarka.
So he watched the small figure Of
Il this pretty blonde as she stood there
negotiating with the native Of an ex-
change OF fowls, as she said one OF the
hens sl,e had bought at his previous
svsaJt was blind; another. she said, had
I Cts, and she was obliged to have its
4 head cut of, while the third "laying
hsn,, psrsistently crowed every morn
ing, to her distress and TINT OF the
invalid mother, on account OF whose
health the two had come there from a
& ,thern town.
alters being satisfactorily adjust.
lie man drove on with q loud
4 d. N of his lashed whip, and she went
5ii I, her cottage bearing a basket OF
80 tempting peaches.
Yenty-three years before her moth
q, Md married DR.. Field, who was an
Army stsyaeon, and she q hospital
r,,rst., self-eieated. coming South from
her f,iliet New England home to do her
share Ia the great struggle between
North and South. Her lover had
i been killed in the first OF the war, and
4 Il sl,a took her aching heart down into
the blood.sprinkled Southern hospit-
51a 4 als, and Dr.. Field had wooed and won
Fl III this uriromantic life, md Mado.
line, their only child, Was Q natural
physician.
Isl She could never see pain or illness
al arr sort that she did not seek to
relieve it. 1t was asperfect passion
Il with her.
She had eagerly read all Of her
Il fathers books, and only the strong
est opposition from both parents pre-
vented her from regularly studying
L fortl,e profession. Like all hobby
lists, she had many theories.
She practised on her young friends
when at school; ell the servants,
siltre she was o child, had come III for
4 share of Miss aa..;:.ddie 8 doctoTing, =
nnd even her parents were Obliged TO
submit to her tyrnnnouB rule in that
particular.
Bringing her mother to Wanako
SorfuQs had been her idea entirely.
She' had learned that the water there
sas absolutely pure, hence, she said,
having yerg little OF the solids. u must
II eliminate iii, which il her mamma took
the form ot rhenmatisnt. but as che
to this day suffers still from che dread
companion of damp atmosphere ana
north lake winds, ii is safe TO assume
that Mad oline's theory failed in this
lustance at least. Another other the
Il tries was that starvation would take
4 any poison from thesystenl, and once,
i when only l3, she had starved hersalt
[ Tor several days in order to relieve
q herself from the poison cf ivy.
Her cure whether it were "faith''
& or ssrnind over matter is not known
Y to this day. was certainly effected,
\ and she always held that as a living
example.
St the time OF which Iwrite Wanako
Springs was not the thriving metro
olitan town it now is, with its huge
,it.stone hotel, its railroad and Its
,nnibus lines.
II was twenty msiaa from the rail
way and essentially back~oodsy, with
\ itsshaky little ttages setupsa pegs,
and its unlighted Streets and mixed
society.
At that time they had regularly ex-
perience meetings where the inyas!ds
stood np and told what tho waters OF
\ the springs had done for the good O
their afflicted bodies. AT one OF these
meetings Madeline met Burt DensloN
II ana hefrankly said hewasnot imprey
ing.
Here, then, was a chance for her tt
xperimene. Some one OF her hobbies
might here be safely ridden. I.
She looked ut him earnestly. H
was not anuninterestinsg nbject--tall
we'll built and dark, with tha black
ness alHost OF an Italian IN hais
though his beard seemed to have Tux
Z, NJ en- some OF the bIondness OF his fal
back Danish ancestry. and his con-
plexion was pale and coiorless KS nh
bic almost. They becamegood friends
Electricity and starvation were plain
III invented to cure thisease,
A Denslow was not SO i'll that he coMl'
not see how charming n little girl thi
was.
ii, fact ile fell in love with her, bu
she did not feciprocate, us he, was t,
her only q patie,t, nothing but q sui
fering human being.
Nothing SO trivial as q love affai
had ever entered into her researches.
Tho physical weli-being of the pa
tiert was all that interested her, al
though she WIS aware that it was
fine subject, really u very handsom
patient.
He was d wealthy man. In TACT !,
had lost his health inn mine wher
iis had dug gold, and not being col
tent with whathe had andcou!d max
iii a slower way, he dsterininediy TO
lowed d ied.l far under ground, bopiil
to make grand thing outofit, thoug
he had been warned by older miner
@ to keep away.
But he went or alone, and OF
day after iahaling more tha
usual OF the roxious gases, he fell IN
faint at the head OF tho vein, and ha
never since been well.
It would seem tls;t5 all the water
WaAlako Springs vas not sufficient t
eliminate tho poison. There hn
II been no words OF oflovebetween hinan
Miss Field.
She had been 30 maitcr- of-fact tho
itseenied impossible for him to tai
sentiment any way.
Beside, as he bitterly said to hin